5th Grade CRCT Presentation

•Welcome to 5th Grade! Thank you for allowing us to teach your children.

Mrs. Gosse, Mrs. Grammer, Ms. Poimboueuf, Mrs. Rowe, Mrs. Simmons, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Way, Mrs. Bryant and Ms. Folts

Test Dates

Tuesday 22nd-Friday 25th and Tuesday 29th. Please make sure your child is at school not later than 7:40 if you plan for he/r to eat breakfast. This will also give time for the restroom and a moment to relax before the test.

A few Reminders

Our students are prepared, so we treat this test as we would any test we give. Encourage your child to do their best and leave it at that.Testing days are exhausting. Please remind coaches that this week is test week.

Reading

•What has your child learned this year?

Language Arts

Even back in kindergarten your child has been building a knowledge base.Each year more and more has been added to culminate in students being able to write and speak and recognize the Conventions of Standard English.

What have we mastered?

We know conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections.We can form the correct verb tense.We can use capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when we write.We can expand and reduce sentences.We can use suffixes and prefixes.We can use figurative language.

Vocabulary

This year we have acquired general academic and domain specific vocabulary.This includes words and phrases that indicate, contrast, addition, and other logical relationships.

We all know that reading opens the mind!

Informational Reading

Informational Reading is reading based on facts. Students are able to make connections between two or more people, events, or ideas within historical, scientific, and technical text.

Elements of Literary Text

Students are able to identify similarities and differences in characters, settings, and events in stories/dramas using details in the text.

Writing

This year students have written in several different genres. This was in preparation for the Writing Test 5th graders took recently.

Our Writing Focus

This year our focus has been on three styles:

Opinion/persuasiveInformativeNarrative

How does writing affect the CRCT?

Tests can come with multiple choice, true or false, or written response. We see and hear what students have learned in the classroom, but they must be able to write by introducing a topic, stating an opinion, organizing their information, and using details. The CRCT will be moving more towards written responses.

Social Studies Standards

In fifth grade, students continue their study of United States history. As with fourth grade, the strands of history, geography, civics, and economics are fully integrated. Students study United States history beginning with the Civil War and continue to the present.

The geography strand emphasizes the influence of geography on U.S. history. The civics strand emphasizes concepts and rights as outlined in amendments to the U. S. Constitution. The economics strand uses material from the historical strand to

further understanding of economic concepts.

Historical Understandings

The student will explain the causes, major events, and consequences of the Civil War.

The student will analyze the effects of Reconstruction on American life.

The student will describe how life changed in America at the turn of the century.

Historical Understandings

The student will describe U.S. involvement in World War I and post-World War I America. The student will explain how the Great Depression and New Deal affected the lives of millions of Americans. The student will explain the reasons for America’s involvement in World War II.

Historical Understandings

The student will discuss the origins and consequences of the Cold War. The student will describe the importance of key people, events, and developments between 1950-1975. The student will trace important developments in America since 1975.

Geographic Understandings

The student will locate important places in the United States. The student will explain the reasons for the spatial patterns of economic activities.

Government/Civic Understandings

The student will explain how a citizen’s rights are protected under the U.S. Constitution .The student will explain the process by which amendments to the U.S. Constitution are made. The student will explain how amendments to the U. S. Constitution have maintained a representative democracy.

Economic Understandings

The student will use the basic economic concepts of trade, opportunity cost, specialization, voluntary exchange, productivity, and price incentives to illustrate historical events .The student will describe the functions of four major sectors in the U. S. economy. The student will describe how consumers and businesses interact in the U. S. economy. The student will identify the elements of a personal budget and explain why personal spending and saving decisions are important.

MathThe grade-by-grade K-5 standards provide students with a solid foundation in whole numbers, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions and decimals—which taken together provide students with a strong foundation for learning and applying more demanding math concepts and procedures, and for moving into robust applications.

What 5th Grade is learning this year in Math

Order of Operations and Whole Numbers Decimals Multiplying and Dividing with Decimals Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing Fractions Geometry and the Coordinate Plane 2D Figures Volume and Measurement

MathStudents are expected to:1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

Model with mathematics.

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5. Use appropriate tools strategically.6. Attend to precision.7. Look for and make use of structure.8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Order of Operations

By the conclusion of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate the following competencies: • Write and solve expressions including parentheses and brackets • Interpret numerical expressions without evaluating them. • Apply the rules for order of operations to solve problems. • Solve word problems involving the multiplication of 3- or 4- digit multiplicand by a 2- or 3- digit multiplier. • Use exponents to represent powers of ten. • Solve problems involving the division of 3- or 4- digit dividends by 2-digit divisors.

Decimals

By the conclusion of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate the following competencies: • understand place value relationships to the thousandths • compare decimals • order, add, and subtract one, two, and three digit decimals. • compare decimals and express their relationship using the symbols, >,<, or = • place decimals on a number line • represent decimal addition and subtraction on a number line • use decimals to solve problems

Multiplying and Dividing with Decimals

By the conclusion of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate the following competencies: • understand place value • use whole number exponents to denote powers of 10 • compare decimals • model multiplication and division of decimals • multiply and divide decimals by powers of 10

Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying, and Dividing

FractionsBy the conclusion of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate the following competencies: • Use multiple strategies to find equivalent fractions • Find and generate equivalent fractions and use them to solve problems • Simplify fractions • Use concrete, pictorial, and computational models to find common denominators

Geometry and the Coordinate Plane

•By the conclusion of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate the following competencies• Generate patterns using given rules • Identify relationships between terms and between two numbers • Form ordered pairs consisting of corresponding terms from the two patterns • Create a coordinate grid and graph ordered pairs in the first quadrant of the coordinate plane • Generate line graphs to represent patterns and linear functions • Articulate directions as students plot points• Interpret coordinate values of points in the context of situations • Represent real world and mathematical problems using coordinate terminology and graphed model

2D Figures

By the conclusion of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate the following competencies:• Classify quadrilaterals (square, rectangle, parallelogram, kite, trapezoid, and rhombus).• Classify the different types of triangles by their attributes.• Identify and sort two-dimensional geometric figures by their properties. (circle, half/quarter circle, triangle, quadrilaterals, pentagon, hexagon)• Classify two-dimensional figures in a hierarchy based on properties.• Classify polygons by attributes.

Volume and Measurement

By the conclusion of this unit, students should be able to demonstrate the following competencies:

• Identify faces, edges, and vertices of cubes and rectangular prisms.

• Understand volume can be determined by finding the product of the area of the base times the height V = B × h. or V=l x w x h

• Estimate and determine the volume of cubes and rectangular prisms.

• Compare the volume of different objects with and without formulae.

• Convert volume measurements within a single system of measurement (customary, metric).

• Measure solid cubes and rectangular prisms using standard customary and metric measures.

Science

The Georgia Performance Standards are designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills for proficiency in science at the fifth grade level. The Project 2061’s Benchmarks for Science Literacy is used as the core of the curriculum to determine appropriate content and process skills for students. The GPS is also aligned to the National Research Council’s National Science Education Standards. Technology is infused into the curriculum. The relationship between science, our environment, and our everyday world is crucial to each student’s success and should be emphasized.

Science

Earth Science Landforms of Georgia Effects of constructive forces Effects of destructive forces

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Physical Science Matter Physical Changes Chemical Changes Electricity and magnetism

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Life Science Classification of organisms Inheritance of traits Learned behaviors Cells and microorganisms

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Habits of Mind Records observations Offers and considers reasoning Quantifies data Measures and estimates Uses scientific tools Assembles, describes, takes apart,

matter and reassembles

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Habits of Mind

Identifies parts and makes models Describes changes Compares physical attributes Draws and sketches Questions and seeks to find answers Researches for scientific information Replicates investigations Works safely

Accelerated Math

Each student has access to Renaissance Learning at home. This is a computer based program that we use in the classroom.Teachers can track student learning and identify problem areas.

How does it work?1. Go to the

school web page.

2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and find the link for Renaissance Learning.

How does it work?1. Click on the blue

tab for student log in.

2. Your child’s log in will be as follows:

User Name: firstname.lastname

Password: six digit birthday. Ex:030603

Let’s get to work!1. Your child can

work in one of two places.

2. Math Facts in a Flash is a program that helps with math facts.

3. Accelerated Math is Standard Based instruction.

Click on Accelerated Math.

1. Once you click on the AM tab you will see this screen. Click on the drop down box.

2. Click on CRCT Practice

Almost ready to work!

1. Your child may or may not have assignment for tests, practice or diagnostics. Whatever the assignment just click to begin.

1. We have given your child access to all of the standards they have not mastered.

2. This is available 24 hours a day and on weekends.

Features:1. Objectives are the

standards students are working on.

2. If you or your child do not understand the standard or objective click on the help.

3. A math glossary is available.

4. Click on the “+” sign for more resources.

Resources:1.The glossary will read the words to students.

2. A video tutorial is available for all objectives.

3. A list of students who have mastered the objective in the class is available for peer support.

Ready to work:1. Click on the back

button at the top of the page to go back to start practice.

2. You can also see your child’s progress for the year on the bottom of the screen. This will have a list of all the work he or she has complete in AM since school started.

Ready to work?1. Click start work out

your problem, click on your answer and click next.

2. If you need help with this problem click “problem help” for tutorials.

3. This problem can also have a flag to remind you to check this problem before you submit the assignment.

4. When you have completed the assignment click on submit.

Almost Finished!

1. Check the problem that you flagged.

2. Review your work. You can click on the red and see why you missed a problem.

If you need to stop the assignment and start later your work will save.